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Latest Firefox ESR
OG wrote:
Oh crapola. I did try the Firefox newsgroup but it failed to post ! I warned you (in my response to Ross). That's why I posted here. No one could know from your starter post that you first attempted to query the Firefox (FF) newsgroup before coming here hence the suggestion to go there. Read my post for those who did not! If I restart Firefox, how do I get to the download folder ???? If YOU cannot remember where YOU chose to store a downloaded file then start using a default folder specified in the web browser. That way, you'll know where is the downloaded folder because it'll be in the same default folder. If you can't remember where you decided to store a previously downloaded file then configure Firefox (FF) to default to the same location. You can even define what is that default location, so you should be able to remember that one (when using Windows Explorer to go there instead of loading FF to then open the folder). You could even create a shortcut to that default folder on your desktop, in a toolbar in the taskbar, in the Start menu, or wherever you like. That way, you don't even have to load FF to find your previously downloaded files. Now to make matters worse, on another Win XP laptop, if I download something the Menu Downloads give me a blank screen. But it did download because Everything finds it (knowing the name of the download or keeping Everything active and sorted on Date while I do downloads.) You are looking at the *history* of your downloads. FF is not a file manager. It is not opening a Windows Explorer instance. Yes, renaming "Downloads" to Download History" would be more accurate. FF is showing you a history of what you previously downloaded. That history is independent of what is actually residing *now* in the folder within the file system. I have a history of my car repairs one of which was to replace the battery. That has happened twice. The battery that is my car now is not the one recorded in my history for the first battery change. Perhaps on that different computer you configured FF differently, like having it purge its local data upon its exit. I don't use FF 52 ESR. Since I am using Windows 7 -- one of the newsgroups to which you decided to CROSS-post with no hint in your starting post about which OS you really use -- one of the cleanup options in FF 61 is to delete the "Browsing and Download History". Well, if you purge that data on exiting FF then it won't be there the next time you load FF. I suspect that same cleanup option is available back in FF 52 ESR. Latest Firefox ESR is the Win XP compatible version supposedly. Latest download means I just downloaded Firefox ESR and installed it. What else can it mean? Geez, how about SAYING you are using FF 52 ESR. That's more detailed than saying "last version" for an OS version that you NEVER IDENTIFIED in your original post. You CROSS-posted to multiple Windows version newsgroups, so how the hell could anyone tell if you meant to ask about using FF on Windows XP or Windows 7, huh? Mozilla stopped support FF on Windows XP, so the "last version" available on that OS is Firefox 52 ESR. Mozilla still supports FF on Windows 7, so the "last version" available on that OS is FF 61. "last version" could be 52 or 61. "last version" does not say WHICH version. You never mentioned your target OS in your starter post! You cross-posted to multiple newsgroups dealing with different versions of Windows. Don't expect others to know what you don't tell them. How about *you* read your own starter post while noting to WHERE *you* chose to CROSS-post. |
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